Hi, I don't know if you can help me. I'm in the US, thinking about constructing a family cloud. I have some experience with NAS (WD My Cloud paired with Sonos to listen to my music library), but am now thinking of something more ambitious. I'd like to put music, photos, and home videos on a NAS which can be read to and written to by family members around the country (roughly 4 or 5). I have probably 2 TB of content now, and it will of course grow. Currently I organize my music in iTunes and my photos in Picasa (notwithstanding the fact that it is no longer supported!). Of course, happy switch away from either iTunes or Picasa (PLEX? My son likes it).

Is this something that can be done at reasonable cost and with reasonable technical skill?

Thanks for any advice you can provide,
Peter Rathjens

Choosing Between Synology HAT5300 and Seagate Ironwolf Pro NAS Hard Drives
Choosing the right hard drive media for your NAS system used to be so simple! The choice when populating your NAS could be n

I want to move from my current DS1520+ to a DS1621+ to get 10Gb interface via expansion card.

Is my 1520 actually a better Plex performer as it is Intel based and not an AMD (aka will I actually be down grading)?

There does not seem to be a current Desktop NAS from Synology that has both Hardware acceleration and 10Gb capability... is there?

Also do you prefer SHR 4+1 with a (COLD or HOT) SPARE over a 4+2 without a spare?

Hi there,
I 'am in the IT business for 40 years, but not very experienced in the network and NAS area. What I 'am looking for is an inexpensive NAS , no fancy feature, but reliable and capable to provide my core requirements.
1. Backup my 6 PC's data
2. Store hi-res audio files (flac) for replay with PC media player software JRiver via high-end sound card
3. Archive video files (HD only) from my DVR for replay when the internal disk gets full
4. RAID 1
5. Speed is always nice to have, but my network is only 1G with Cat5 cabling

I would be very happy if can recommend some NAS. QNAP sounds great overall, from SYNOLOGY I heard some bad things, but not sure whats true.

Kind regards,
Thorsten

What can be done? What should be done? What should be ignored?

Yesterday I got this message from my Synology NAS:

Dear user,

The following is your monthly report regarding the health of disks on niels1819. You can also check the health of individual disks at Storage Manager > HDD/SSD > Health Info.

Only drives with problems are displayed.

Drive 3
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Normal
Bad sector count: 2
Drive reconnection count: 0
Drive re-identification count: 0

Drive 6
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Normal
Bad sector count: 0
Drive reconnection count: 20
Drive re-identification count: 0


Sincerely,
Synology DiskStation

I am new is that. I have too many movies. max 1200 euros home I have 7 terrain movies, music and photos Greece

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Hello, i've watched your videos and they have been very helpful! I'm a Mac-based video editor on a 2013 MacPro with Gigabit internet, thunderbolt 2.0 and USB 3.o. I will upgrade to a brand new mac pro with thunderbolt 3 sometime within 2 years. I'm wondering if there would be any direct advantage to using a NAS with gigabit ethernet directly connected to my machine and using it as a simple RAID 5? I don't exactly need any of the IOT features of NAS right now but maybe in the future. I am also kind of far from my internet modem and just use Wifi and not wired ethernet. I'm wondering if I'm crazy to buy a NAS? Would a Synology or other NAS be good for me or should I just buy a &quot;dumb&quot; RAID 5? Any ideas would be helpful

Hello,
I have a Synology DS1520 and it is currently backing up to itself via HyperBackup.
I would like to backup the backups to my Drobo 5N2.
I have ample space on the Drobo.
Everything I read says to use rsync. rsync is not supported by Drobo anymore.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Really enjoy your content.